Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. — Michel de Montaigne
Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, — Michel de Montaigne
The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great. — Michel de Montaigne
Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity. — Michel de Montaigne
Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale — Michel de Montaigne
There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other — Michel de Montaigne